Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSIndeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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